Before There Was All Together, There Was My Thanksgiving

Now that you have met all twelve songs on the new record, I want to take you back a year, to the album that started it all.

Last November I released My Thanksgiving, and it was the first time anyone had ever handed this overlooked holiday a real soundtrack. I remember being frustrated that we go straight from Halloween to Christmas, from carving pumpkins to jingle bells, with nothing in between. Thanksgiving, a whole holiday dedicated to gratitude and family and reflection, and it had no anthem. No songs. Just the awkward silence between spooky season and the Christmas rush.

So I filled the void. My Thanksgiving is fourteen songs, and where All Together is intimate and stripped down, My Thanksgiving has more of my Broadway heart in it, bigger and more theatrical in places, funny in others. It was my first swing at giving this holiday the music it deserves.

And here is the beautiful thing about having two Thanksgiving albums now. You can build a whole day around them. Put on My Thanksgiving while you are cooking, big and warm and celebratory, and then put on All Together when everyone has gone home and you are washing the good dishes by hand. Two records, one table, one holiday, side by side.

Over the next few days I am going to walk you back through some of my favorite moments from My Thanksgiving, because those songs still mean the world to me, and because if you are new here, I want you to have the whole collection.

If you have never heard it, this is the perfect week to fix that. Go give it a listen, and please follow me while you are there, so both albums live in your library and you see everything new the moment it drops.

Stream My Thanksgiving on Spotify, and follow me on Apple Music and Amazon Music too. Find me on Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook, and join my email list.

I make my music by writing every lyric myself and using AI tools like Suno and Claude to build the sound I hear in my head. Always honest and proud of that.

Have you heard My Thanksgiving yet? Tell me your favorite track in the comments.

With so much love, Melanie Grace TheMelanieGrace